Category: Thoughts and Musings

They didn’t come in the night. They came in broad daylight. They took the children from their school and the teachers couldn’t stop them. Once the children had been taken, they were paid for their service, and as soon as they found new parents for them, they were paid again. Paid to take them. Paid… Continue reading A Tragic Tale

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Yeah, Monday is hard for me. I have to wake up early after getting to sleep in on the weekend, and getting the kids off to school is a bit of a chore because of the weekend chaos and the losing of backpacks, shoes, socks, clean clothes, hairbrushes, detanglers, ponytail holders, and any number of… Continue reading Monday’s Are Not the Hardest

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Imagine being me for a few minutes. Enjoy. You’re sound asleep and everything is right with the world. Then you hear a squawk from next to you, but you’re still asleep and it barely penetrates your dream. After a few moments another squawk penetrates the stillness of your bedroom. This time is rouses you enough… Continue reading Let Sleeping Baers Lie

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I’ve talked before about the Slamdunk School of Cooking and the Slamdunk Homeschool, and other variations, but maybe I haven’t explained truly what it means to be part of the Slamdunk School. Since I was a child, my dad has claimed the roll of headmaster for this school. Whenever he taught us something or life… Continue reading The Slamdunk School of Life

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A Toast for a Bridegroom

by Jen Winters

May you always be rich with love and poor with bad luck. May your wife’s gaze always be soft unless you’re hard. May drink always be cold and your wife’s feet warm. May your marriage blossom in prosperity and bloom in adversity.

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I’m almost 34 years old. I’ve wanted some kinds of piercings since I was 12. I think I have waited long enough. I bought a piercing gun off Amazon and it came with an ungodly number of piercing studs. When it arrived, I had to decide how to proceed and with some trial and error,… Continue reading MPL: I Bought a Piercing Gun!